this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think.

Although there’s no UI to look at a user’s voting history yet, one could conceivably be built by an instance. Perhaps coincidentally, I hear there’s instances out there populated by mostly bots?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't part of the reason for anonymous voting and even "blurred" voting so accounts that were shadowbanned wouldn't know it and go create a new bot account to spam more?

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[–] average650 1 points 1 year ago

This is probably a good thing. Otherwise an instance could just do whatever they wanted and it would be very hard to detect.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I didn’t know, that’s awesome! Downvote shouldn’t be the “fuck you I disagree” button, save that garbage for Twitter and Reddit. Downvote is there for democratically killing malevolent bullshit. Expose the names!

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